🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

निर्धारण करने वाला

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nirdharan karne wala

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Determinative/dɪˈtɜːmɪnətɪv/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह कारक परिणाम में निर्धारक था।"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Serving to define, characterize, or decisively influence something.

    "Economic factors played a determinative role in the outcome of the election."
As noun
  1. 1

    A word or morpheme that limits or clarifies the meaning of another word, particularly a determiner in grammar or an ideographic sign in ancient writing systems.

    "In Egyptian hieroglyphics, the determinative indicates the category of the preceding word."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin determinativus, stemming from the verb determinare (to bound, limit, or determine), composed of de- (down, completely) and terminus (boundary or limit). Entering English in the 17th century, it initially developed technical applications in grammar, philosophy, and biology to denote elements that serve to define, characterize, or restrict.

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